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2017-07-10Merge branch 'ab/wildmatch'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+1
Minor code cleanup. * ab/wildmatch: wildmatch: remove unused wildopts parameter
2017-07-06Merge branch 'rs/apply-avoid-over-reading'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-2/+1
Code clean-up to fix possible buffer over-reading. * rs/apply-avoid-over-reading: apply: use starts_with() in gitdiff_verify_name()
2017-07-01apply: use starts_with() in gitdiff_verify_name()Libravatar René Scharfe1-2/+1
Avoid running over the end of line -- a C string whose length is not known to this function -- by using starts_with() instead of memcmp(3) for checking if it starts with "/dev/null". Also simply include the newline in the string constant to compare against. Drop a comment that just states the obvious. Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2017-06-30Merge branch 'rs/apply-validate-input'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-6/+29
Tighten error checks for invalid "git apply" input. * rs/apply-validate-input: apply: check git diffs for mutually exclusive header lines apply: check git diffs for invalid file modes apply: check git diffs for missing old filenames
2017-06-27apply: check git diffs for mutually exclusive header linesLibravatar René Scharfe1-0/+15
A file can either be added, removed, copied, or renamed, but no two of these actions can be done by the same patch. Some of these combinations provoke error messages due to missing file names, and some are only caught by an assertion. Check git patches already as they are parsed and report conflicting lines on sight. Found by Vegard Nossum using AFL. Reported-by: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2017-06-27apply: check git diffs for invalid file modesLibravatar René Scharfe1-5/+12
An empty string as mode specification is accepted silently by git apply, as Vegard Nossum found out using AFL. It's interpreted as zero. Reject such bogus file modes, and only accept ones consisting exclusively of octal digits. Reported-by: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2017-06-27apply: check git diffs for missing old filenamesLibravatar René Scharfe1-1/+2
2c93286a (fix "git apply --index ..." not to deref NULL) added a check for git patches missing a +++ line, preventing a segfault. Check for missing --- lines as well, and add a test for each case. Found by Vegard Nossum using AFL. Original-patch-by: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2017-06-24Merge branch 'ab/free-and-null'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-2/+1
A common pattern to free a piece of memory and assign NULL to the pointer that used to point at it has been replaced with a new FREE_AND_NULL() macro. * ab/free-and-null: *.[ch] refactoring: make use of the FREE_AND_NULL() macro coccinelle: make use of the "expression" FREE_AND_NULL() rule coccinelle: add a rule to make "expression" code use FREE_AND_NULL() coccinelle: make use of the "type" FREE_AND_NULL() rule coccinelle: add a rule to make "type" code use FREE_AND_NULL() git-compat-util: add a FREE_AND_NULL() wrapper around free(ptr); ptr = NULL
2017-06-24Merge branch 'bw/config-h'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+1
Fix configuration codepath to pay proper attention to commondir that is used in multi-worktree situation, and isolate config API into its own header file. * bw/config-h: config: don't implicitly use gitdir or commondir config: respect commondir setup: teach discover_git_directory to respect the commondir config: don't include config.h by default config: remove git_config_iter config: create config.h
2017-06-24Merge branch 'bw/ls-files-sans-the-index'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+1
Code clean-up. * bw/ls-files-sans-the-index: ls-files: factor out tag calculation ls-files: factor out debug info into a function ls-files: convert show_files to take an index ls-files: convert show_ce_entry to take an index ls-files: convert prune_cache to take an index ls-files: convert ce_excluded to take an index ls-files: convert show_ru_info to take an index ls-files: convert show_other_files to take an index ls-files: convert show_killed_files to take an index ls-files: convert write_eolinfo to take an index ls-files: convert overlay_tree_on_cache to take an index tree: convert read_tree to take an index parameter convert: convert renormalize_buffer to take an index convert: convert convert_to_git to take an index convert: convert convert_to_git_filter_fd to take an index convert: convert crlf_to_git to take an index convert: convert get_cached_convert_stats_ascii to take an index
2017-06-23wildmatch: remove unused wildopts parameterLibravatar Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason1-1/+1
Remove the unused wildopts placeholder struct from being passed to all wildmatch() invocations, or rather remove all the boilerplate NULL parameters. This parameter was added back in commit 9b3497cab9 ("wildmatch: rename constants and update prototype", 2013-01-01) as a placeholder for future use. Over 4 years later nothing has made use of it, let's just remove it. It can be added in the future if we find some reason to start using such a parameter. Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2017-06-22Merge branch 'pc/dir-count-slashes'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-11/+0
Three instances of the same helper function have been consolidated to one. * pc/dir-count-slashes: dir: create function count_slashes()
2017-06-16coccinelle: make use of the "type" FREE_AND_NULL() ruleLibravatar Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason1-2/+1
Apply the result of the just-added coccinelle rule. This manually excludes a few occurrences, mostly things that resulted in many FREE_AND_NULL() on one line, that'll be manually fixed in a subsequent change. Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2017-06-15config: don't include config.h by defaultLibravatar Brandon Williams1-0/+1
Stop including config.h by default in cache.h. Instead only include config.h in those files which require use of the config system. Signed-off-by: Brandon Williams <bmwill@google.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2017-06-13Merge branch 'jc/noent-notdir'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+1
Our code often opens a path to an optional file, to work on its contents when we can successfully open it. We can ignore a failure to open if such an optional file does not exist, but we do want to report a failure in opening for other reasons (e.g. we got an I/O error, or the file is there, but we lack the permission to open). The exact errors we need to ignore are ENOENT (obviously) and ENOTDIR (less obvious). Instead of repeating comparison of errno with these two constants, introduce a helper function to do so. * jc/noent-notdir: treewide: use is_missing_file_error() where ENOENT and ENOTDIR are checked compat-util: is_missing_file_error()
2017-06-13convert: convert convert_to_git to take an indexLibravatar Brandon Williams1-1/+1
Signed-off-by: Brandon Williams <bmwill@google.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2017-06-12dir: create function count_slashes()Libravatar Prathamesh Chavan1-11/+0
Similar functions exist in apply.c and builtin/show-branch.c for counting the number of slashes in a string. Also in the later patches, we introduce a third caller for the same. Hence, we unify it now by cleaning the existing functions and declaring a common function count_slashes in dir.h and implementing it in dir.c to remove this code duplication. Mentored-by: Christian Couder <christian.couder@gmail.com> Mentored-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> Signed-off-by: Prathamesh Chavan <pc44800@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2017-05-30treewide: use is_missing_file_error() where ENOENT and ENOTDIR are checkedLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+1
Using the is_missing_file_error() helper introduced in the previous step, update all hits from $ git grep -e ENOENT --and -e ENOTDIR There are codepaths that only check ENOENT, and it is possible that some of them should be checking both. Updating them is kept out of this step deliberately, as we do not want to change behaviour in this step. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2017-05-16Merge branch 'jc/apply-fix-mismerge'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-169/+169
* jc/apply-fix-mismerge: apply.c: fix whitespace-only mismerge
2017-05-08apply.c: fix whitespace-only mismergeLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-169/+169
4af9a7d3 ("Merge branch 'bc/object-id'", 2016-09-19) involved merging a lot of changes made to builtin/apply.c on the side branch manually to apply.c as an intervening commit 13b5af22 ("apply: move libified code from builtin/apply.c to apply.{c,h}", 2016-04-22) moved a lot of the lines changed on the side branch to a different file apply.c at the top-level, requiring manual patching of it. Apparently, the maintainer screwed up and made the code indent in a funny way while doing so. Reported-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2017-03-21prefix_filename: return newly allocated stringLibravatar Jeff King1-3/+6
The prefix_filename() function returns a pointer to static storage, which makes it easy to use dangerously. We already fixed one buggy caller in hash-object recently, and the calls in apply.c are suspicious (I didn't dig in enough to confirm that there is a bug, but we call the function once in apply_all_patches() and then again indirectly from parse_chunk()). Let's make it harder to get wrong by allocating the return value. For simplicity, we'll do this even when the prefix is empty (and we could just return the original file pointer). That will cause us to allocate sometimes when we wouldn't otherwise need to, but this function isn't called in performance critical code-paths (and it already _might_ allocate on any given call, so a caller that cares about performance is questionable anyway). The downside is that the callers need to remember to free() the result to avoid leaking. Most of them already used xstrdup() on the result, so we know they are OK. The remainder have been converted to use free() as appropriate. I considered retaining a prefix_filename_unsafe() for cases where we know the static lifetime is OK (and handling the cleanup is awkward). This is only a handful of cases, though, and it's not worth the mental energy in worrying about whether the "unsafe" variant is OK to use in any situation. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2017-03-21prefix_filename: drop length parameterLibravatar Jeff King1-4/+2
This function takes the prefix as a ptr/len pair, but in every caller the length is exactly strlen(ptr). Let's simplify the interface and just take the string. This saves callers specifying it (and in some cases handling a NULL prefix). In a handful of cases we had the length already without calling strlen, so this is technically slower. But it's not likely to matter (after all, if the prefix is non-empty we'll allocate and copy it into a buffer anyway). Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2017-01-30apply: use SWAP macroLibravatar René Scharfe1-16/+7
Use the exported macro SWAP instead of the file-scoped macro swap and remove the latter's definition. Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-12-07hold_locked_index(): align error handling with hold_lockfile_for_update()Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+1
Callers of the hold_locked_index() function pass 0 when they want to prepare to write a new version of the index file without wishing to die or emit an error message when the request fails (e.g. somebody else already held the lock), and pass 1 when they want the call to die upon failure. This option is called LOCK_DIE_ON_ERROR by the underlying lockfile API, and the hold_locked_index() function translates the paramter to LOCK_DIE_ON_ERROR when calling the hold_lock_file_for_update(). Replace these hardcoded '1' with LOCK_DIE_ON_ERROR and stop translating. Callers other than the ones that are replaced with this change pass '0' to the function; no behaviour change is intended with this patch. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> --- Among the callers of hold_locked_index() that passes 0: - diff.c::refresh_index_quietly() at the end of "git diff" is an opportunistic update; it leaks the lockfile structure but it is just before the program exits and nobody should care. - builtin/describe.c::cmd_describe(), builtin/commit.c::cmd_status(), sequencer.c::read_and_refresh_cache() are all opportunistic updates and they are OK. - builtin/update-index.c::cmd_update_index() takes a lock upfront but we may end up not needing to update the index (i.e. the entries may be fully up-to-date), in which case we do not need to issue an error upon failure to acquire the lock. We do diagnose and die if we indeed need to update, so it is OK. - wt-status.c::require_clean_work_tree() IS BUGGY. It asks silence, does not check the returned value. Compare with callsites like cmd_describe() and cmd_status() to notice that it is wrong to call update_index_if_able() unconditionally.
2016-10-17i18n: apply: mark error message for translationLibravatar Vasco Almeida1-2/+2
Update test to reflect changes. Signed-off-by: Vasco Almeida <vascomalmeida@sapo.pt> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-10-14i18n: apply: mark error messages for translationLibravatar Vasco Almeida1-24/+24
Mark error messages for translation passed to error() and die() functions. Signed-off-by: Vasco Almeida <vascomalmeida@sapo.pt> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-10-14i18n: apply: mark info messages for translationLibravatar Vasco Almeida1-4/+4
Mark messages for translation printed to stderr. Signed-off-by: Vasco Almeida <vascomalmeida@sapo.pt> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-10-14i18n: apply: mark plural string for translationLibravatar Vasco Almeida1-4/+6
Mark plural string for translation using Q_(). Signed-off-by: Vasco Almeida <vascomalmeida@sapo.pt> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-09-22introduce CHECKOUT_INITLibravatar René Scharfe1-3/+1
Add a static initializer for struct checkout and use it throughout the code base. It's shorter, avoids a memset(3) call and makes sure the base_dir member is initialized to a valid (empty) string. Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-09-19Merge branch 'bc/object-id'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-215/+215
The "unsigned char sha1[20]" to "struct object_id" conversion continues. Notable changes in this round includes that ce->sha1, i.e. the object name recorded in the cache_entry, turns into an object_id. It had merge conflicts with a few topics in flight (Christian's "apply.c split", Dscho's "cat-file --filters" and Jeff Hostetler's "status --porcelain-v2"). Extra sets of eyes double-checking for mismerges are highly appreciated. * bc/object-id: builtin/reset: convert to use struct object_id builtin/commit-tree: convert to struct object_id builtin/am: convert to struct object_id refs: add an update_ref_oid function. sha1_name: convert get_sha1_mb to struct object_id builtin/update-index: convert file to struct object_id notes: convert init_notes to use struct object_id builtin/rm: convert to use struct object_id builtin/blame: convert file to use struct object_id Convert read_mmblob to take struct object_id. notes-merge: convert struct notes_merge_pair to struct object_id builtin/checkout: convert some static functions to struct object_id streaming: make stream_blob_to_fd take struct object_id builtin: convert textconv_object to use struct object_id builtin/cat-file: convert some static functions to struct object_id builtin/cat-file: convert struct expand_data to use struct object_id builtin/log: convert some static functions to use struct object_id builtin/blame: convert struct origin to use struct object_id builtin/apply: convert static functions to struct object_id cache: convert struct cache_entry to use struct object_id
2016-09-07apply: learn to use a different index fileLibravatar Christian Couder1-6/+21
Sometimes we want to apply in a different index file. Before the apply functionality was libified it was possible to use the GIT_INDEX_FILE environment variable, for this purpose. But now, as the apply functionality has been libified, it should be possible to do that in a libified way. Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-09-07apply: pass apply state to build_fake_ancestor()Libravatar Christian Couder1-4/+5
To libify git apply functionality, we will need to read from a different index file in get_current_sha1(). This index file will be stored in "struct apply_state", so let's pass the state to build_fake_ancestor() which will later pass it to get_current_sha1(). Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-09-07apply: move libified code from builtin/apply.c to apply.{c,h}Libravatar Christian Couder1-0/+4731
As most of the apply code in builtin/apply.c has been libified by a number of previous commits, it can now be moved to apply.{c,h}, so that more code can use it. Helped-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> Helped-by: Ramsay Jones <ramsay@ramsayjones.plus.com> Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-09-07apply: refactor `git apply` option parsingLibravatar Christian Couder1-13/+90
Parsing `git apply` options can be useful to other commands that want to call the libified apply functionality, because this way they can easily pass some options from their own command line to the libified apply functionality. This will be used by `git am` in a following patch. To make this possible, let's refactor the `git apply` option parsing code into a new libified apply_parse_options() function. Doing that makes it possible to remove some functions definitions from "apply.h" and make them static in "apply.c". Helped-by: Ramsay Jones <ramsay@ramsayjones.plus.com> Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-09-07apply: change error_routine when silentLibravatar Christian Couder1-1/+20
To avoid printing anything when applying with `state->apply_verbosity == verbosity_silent`, let's save the existing warn and error routines before applying, and let's replace them with a routine that does nothing. Then after applying, let's restore the saved routines. Note that, as we need to restore the saved routines in all cases, we cannot return early any more in apply_all_patches(). Helped-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com> Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-09-07apply: don't print on stdout in verbosity_silent modeLibravatar Christian Couder1-3/+3
When apply_verbosity is set to verbosity_silent nothing should be printed on both stderr and stdout. To avoid printing on stdout, we can just skip calling the following functions: - stat_patch_list(), - numstat_patch_list(), - summary_patch_list(). It is safe to do that because the above functions have no side effects other than printing: - stat_patch_list() only computes some local values and then call show_stats() and print_stat_summary(), those two functions only compute local values and call printing functions, - numstat_patch_list() also only computes local values and calls printing functions, - summary_patch_list() calls show_file_mode_name(), printf(), show_rename_copy(), show_mode_change() that are only printing. Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-09-07apply: make it possible to silently applyLibravatar Christian Couder1-22/+40
This changes 'int apply_verbosely' into 'enum apply_verbosity', and changes the possible values of the variable from a bool to a tristate. The previous 'false' state is changed into 'verbosity_normal'. The previous 'true' state is changed into 'verbosity_verbose'. The new added state is 'verbosity_silent'. It should prevent anything to be printed on both stderr and stdout. This is needed because `git am` wants to first call apply functionality silently, if it can then fall back on 3-way merge in case of error. Printing on stdout, and calls to warning() or error() are not taken care of in this patch, as that will be done in following patches. Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-09-07apply: use error_errno() where possibleLibravatar Christian Couder1-8/+8
To avoid possible mistakes and to uniformly show the errno related messages, let's use error_errno() where possible. Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-09-07apply: make some parsing functions static againLibravatar Christian Couder1-3/+3
Some parsing functions that were used in both "apply.c" and "builtin/apply.c" are now only used in the former, so they can be made static to "apply.c". Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-08-11builtin/apply: move check_apply_state() to apply.cLibravatar Christian Couder1-0/+32
To libify `git apply` functionality we must make check_apply_state() usable outside "builtin/apply.c". Let's do that by moving it into "apply.c". Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-08-11apply: make init_apply_state() return -1 instead of exit()ingLibravatar Christian Couder1-5/+6
To libify `git apply` functionality we have to signal errors to the caller instead of exit()ing. To do that in a compatible manner with the rest of the error handling in "builtin/apply.c", init_apply_state() should return -1 instead of calling exit(). Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-08-11builtin/apply: move init_apply_state() to apply.cLibravatar Christian Couder1-0/+94
To libify `git apply` functionality we must make init_apply_state() usable outside "builtin/apply.c". Let's do that by moving it into a new "apply.c". Helped-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com> Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2006-05-23Builtin git-apply.Libravatar Peter Eriksen1-2299/+0
Signed-off-by: Peter Eriksen <s022018@student.dtu.dk> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-05-17apply --cached: do not check newly added file in the working treeLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-4/+6
The --cached mode does not deal with the working tree, so we should not check it with lstat. An earlier code omitted the call to lstat but forgot to omit the check for the errno. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-05-15apply --cached: apply a patch without using working tree.Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-20/+52
A new flag "--cached" takes the cached data, applies the patch and stores the result in the index, without using the working tree. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-05-15apply --numstat: show new name, not old name.Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+1
Somehow --stat showed the new name but --numstat showed the old name for renamed/copied paths. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-05-09Merge branch 'jc/bindiff'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-61/+237
* jc/bindiff: improve base85 generated assembly code binary diff and apply: testsuite. binary diff: further updates. binary patch.
2006-05-09apply: fix infinite loop with multiple patches with --indexLibravatar Eric Wong1-9/+9
When multiple patches are passed to git-apply, it will attempt to open multiple file descriptors to an index, which means multiple entries will be in the circular cache_file_list. This change makes git-apply only open the index once and write the index at exit. Signed-off-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-05-05binary diff: further updates.Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-33/+97
This updates the user interface and generated diff data format. * "diff --binary" is used to signal that we want an e-mailable binary patch. It implies --full-index and -p. * "apply --allow-binary-replacement" acquired a short synonym "apply --binary". * After the "GIT binary patch\n" header line there is a token to record which binary patch mechanism was used, so that we can extend it later. Currently there are two mechanisms defined: "literal" and "delta". The former records the deflated postimage and the latter records the deflated delta from the preimage to postimage. For purely implementation convenience, I added the deflated length after these "literal/delta" tokens (otherwise the decoding side needs to guess and reallocate the buffer while inflating). Improvement patches are very welcomed. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-05-05binary patch.Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-60/+172
This adds "binary patch" to the diff output and teaches apply what to do with them. On the diff generation side, traditionally, we said "Binary files differ\n" without giving anything other than the preimage and postimage object name on the index line. This was good enough for applying a patch generated from your own repository (very useful while rebasing), because the postimage would be available in such a case. However, this was not useful when the recipient of such a patch via e-mail were to apply it, even if the preimage was available. This patch allows the diff to generate "binary" patch when operating under --full-index option. The binary patch follows the usual extended git diff headers, and looks like this: "GIT binary patch\n" <length byte><data>"\n" ... "\n" Each line is prefixed with a "length-byte", whose value is upper or lowercase alphabet that encodes number of bytes that the data on the line decodes to (1..52 -- 'A' means 1, 'B' means 2, ..., 'Z' means 26, 'a' means 27, ...). <data> is 1 or more groups of 5-byte sequence, each of which encodes up to 4 bytes in base85 encoding. Because 52 / 4 * 5 = 65 and we have the length byte, an output line is capped to 66 characters. The payload is the same diff-delta as we use in the packfiles. On the consumption side, git-apply now can decode and apply the binary patch when --allow-binary-replacement is given, the diff was generated with --full-index, and the receiving repository has the preimage blob, which is the same condition as it always required when accepting an "Binary files differ\n" patch. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>